The National Trust for Scotland is the charity that cares for, shares and speaks up for Scotland’s magnificent heritage. Since 1931, we’ve pioneered public access to and shared ownership of some of the most magnificent buildings, collections and landscapes in Scotland. We’re Scotland’s largest membership organisation and we’re independent from government.

Among the many properties in the Trust’s care are two of the most outstanding buildings designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald; The Hill House and Mackintosh at the Willow. Together, these sites welcome 280,000 visitors annually, promoting the cultural legacy of Mackintosh and engaging visitors with the life and works of two of Scotland's most influential artists. The Mackintosh Illuminated Project will bring together these two properties in a joint engagement, communications and marketing and outreach programme to spotlight the design duo, sharing, celebrating and inspiring as many as possible with their creative genius and the beauty of their creations and create the foundation for a reappraisal of how Mackintosh and Macdonald are perceived and appreciated locally and internationally.

Job purpose

This role, providing a Diploma in Data Analytics SCQF Level 6 will work with the Insight Manager to support the collection, management, analysis and reporting of audience and project data primarily related to the Mackintosh Illuminated Project. The work will help guide decision makers and support robust reporting across the project workstreams.

Through hands-on experience and structured learning, they will gain skills in data collection, management, analysis and reporting, giving them strong foundations for a career uncovering insight from data.

The role is part of the Audiences & Support Directorate and there is flexibility in the role location.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities

• Support the identification and understanding of key audiences related to the Trust and the Mackintosh Illuminated Project in particular.
• Learn to use a variety of data analysis tools (Excel, SQL, Python, Power BI) to help answer business questions
• Work with the Insights Manager to improve end-to-end audience research including data collection, storage, transformation, modelling and reporting.
• Contribute to Mackintosh Illuminated project reporting as required
• Work with the Mackintosh Illuminated project team and a range of Audience and Support, Public Engagement and Research and IT colleagues.
• Gain credits for the diploma including:
  • Supporting Digital Business Transformation
  • Applying Methods and Principles in Project Management
  • Developing Meta-Skills and Personal Professionalism
  • Managing Data Assets
  • Planning Data Analysis
  • Locating and Accessing Data Sources
  • Transforming Data for Analysis
  • Analysing Data
  • Visualising and Communicating Data
  • Implementing Machine Learning Models

Required qualifications, skills, experience & knowledge

Qualifications

Essential

• Participating in the SCQF Level 6 Diploma in Data Analytics as part of this role.
• National 5 (or equivalent) in Mathematics or IT related subject.
• National 5 (or equivalent) in English.

Desirable

• Interest in heritage and conservation.

The current duties of this job do not require a criminal records (Disclosure Scotland) check to be carried out.

Experience

Essential

• Excellent analytical and numeracy skills and attention to detail
• IT literacy and familiarity with data analysis tools (principally Excel) and the ability to pick up other tools as appropriate
• Demonstrable experience of our core values (brave, caring, curious, inclusive, vibrant).
• Strong teamworking skills
• Good communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex ideas
• Ability to manage time efficiently and effectively in an environment of changing priorities.

Desirable

• Passion for data and uncovering meaningful insights

Dimensions and scope of job

People Management

• No line management responsibility
• Close working relationship with A&S, property teams and other Directorates

Financial Management

• None

Tools / equipment / systems

• Training will be provided for all the below:
  • Microsoft Office systems including OneDrive, Teams, Excel
  • Core NTS Survey platforms (MS Forms, Snap Survey)
  • SQL and Microsoft Azure
  • Data analysis and visualization tools (Power BI, Python)

Key performance indicators and targets

• Contributes to key objectives of the Insights function such as survey data collected, projects completed and unique users to the Audience and Insights SharePoint Hub.
• Contributes to A&S KPI through supporting membership and marketing work with actionable insight.
• Completion of all coursework and assignments for SCQF Level 6 Diploma in Digital Marketing

Place in organisational structure:Audience & Support – Communications

The Purpose, Context, Key Responsibilities, and Person Specification reflect the requirements of the job at the time of issue. The Trust reserves the right to amend these with appropriate consultation and/or request the post-holder to undertake any activities that it believes to be reasonable within the broad scope of the job or his/her general abilities.

JOB PURPOSE

The National Trust for Scotland is Scotland’s largest membership organisation and Scotland’s largest charity land manager. We manage many of Scotland’s most significant woodlands, from the extensive Caledonian pinewoods of Mar Lodge to rainforest hazelwood’s in the Hebrides and endemic Whitebeam woodlands on Arran.

As a founding member of both the Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest and Caledonian Pinewood Partnership and as a key delivery partners with the Scottish Government for landscape scale ecological restoration of native woodland in Scotland, we are recruiting a post to help drive this exciting work.

You will lead the Trusts outreach for native woodland restoration across Scotland, developing several large scale projects. You will build partnerships with private landowners, communities of place and communities of interest, including other eNGOs and conservation organisations. You will have the backing and support of our nature, fundraising, planning, community engagement, estates and media teams.

The focus of your work will be developing two Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest landscape scale projects in West Lochalsh and on Arran and provide initial contact and support to pinewood managers who look after threatened remnants, to bring their sites into recovery.

We are looking for strong communication & diplomacy skills, which can be influential at a network scale. Someone who can build trust and influence in land management situations, across a diverse range of partners with different interests and objectives. Someone who can develop partnership project plans, acting as the bridge between our internal expertise, existing and new partners. In particular you will develop delivery project content to a “shovel ready” stage, so your fundraising colleagues can draft applications.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Making initial contact, maintaining and/or developing ongoing communication and liaison with external landowners, stakeholders and associated organisations.
• Understanding external landowner’s and communities’ values, objectives and constraints and communicating the Trusts, with a view to building trust, understanding and cooperation in relation to collaborative, nature positive land management.
• Develop collegiate partnership operations and memoranda of understanding with both internal and external stakeholder input and support.
• Liase with internal NTS expertise across multiple disciplines, to inform your delivery of external communications and advice to stakeholders.
• Develop collaborative landscape scale funding bids across multiple estates and landholdings, including both NTS land and externally owned land, in association with the Trusts fundraising team.
• Supporting applications for government grants including Scottish Forestry Grant Scheme, Agri Environment Climate Scheme, Nature Restoration Fund etc.
• Coordinate delivery of landscape scale nature restoration projects across multiple estates and landholdings, including both NTS land and externally owned land, including budget management.
• Procure and manage contracts associated with landscape scale nature restoration projects, monitor delivery of grant conditions and complete grant claims & reports.
• Organise partnership meetings and events to strengthen networks and collaboration within the partnership.
• Write reports for partners and funders showing progress against agreed objectives and funding obligations.